Well a new month is upon us and the video store is making more room to invite some new and old friends into the shop. Here is the first movie list of the month of June…
The first Five films of the series back in stock!
Everybody’s favorite schoolgirl by day & avenging prostitute by night in a double feature: Angel (1984) / Avenging Angel (1985)
ANGEL: When Molly, a high school honor student by day and streetwise prostitute by night, witnesses a murder, she must navigate the dangerous streets of Hollywood to survive, all while trying to uncover the killer’s identity. AVENGING ANGEL: Molly, is now a law student turned vigilante seeking justice for her friend’s murder, confronting LA’s criminal underworld in a relentless quest for revenge.
A New York stripper thinks she hit the jackpot with a Russian oligarch’s son, but fairy tales collapse fast when his powerful family get involved in this dark comedy. Mikey Madison, Glenn Fleshler, Sean Baker, 2024.
In Vietnam in 1970, Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) takes a perilous and increasingly hallucinatory journey upriver to find and terminate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a once-promising officer who has reportedly gone completely mad. In the company of a Navy patrol boat filled with street-smart kids, a surfing-obsessed Air Cavalry officer (Robert Duvall), and a crazed freelance photographer (Dennis Hopper), Willard travels further and further into the heart of darkness.
There’s a hip new disc jockey at KDUL, Superstation 66, and he’s about to make rock and roll history. He’s Dangerous Dan O’Dare, the most controversial DJ to hit the airwaves and he’s changing the station’s format from only polka music to a wild rock and roll. But when a wacky alien – who has quite a taste for hard rock and beautiful young women – lands nearby, he takes over the airwaves!
The brief but incandescent life of rock-and-roll trailblazer Ritchie Valens is immortalized in this enthralling biopic from another Mexican American icon, Luis Valdez, the father of Chicano cinema. With sweetness and swagger, Lou Diamond Phillips embodies the 1950s California teenager who, forged by his fiercely supportive mother (Rosanna DeSoto) and rebellious brother (Esai Morales), rises from his farm-working roots to chart-topping fame in the early days of rock—until one fateful night that haunts music history. Propelled by a hip-shaking soundtrack featuring Los Lobos and Carlos Santana, La Bamba captures the electric vitality of an artist who bridged cultures to create his own American dream.
Bruce Pearson (Robert De Niro, Taxi Driver) and Henry Wiggen (Michael Moriarty, The Last Detail) are friends and teammates, playing on The New York Mammoths as catcher and pitcher, respectively. Henry is pulling double duty as an insurance salesman on the side, selling policies to other baseball players, while engaged in a contract dispute with the baseball team’s ownership. When Bruce is diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease, realizing he is terminally ill, Henry wavers from his ongoing negotiations to make sure Bruce can be his catcher for one last season.
BEASTMASTER: Dar, an ancient warrior with the ability to communicate telepathically with animal allies, sets out to stop the crazed plans of an evil high priest named Maax and save his friends.
BEASTMASTER II: Prehistoric Dar (Marc Singer) goes by time warp to Los Angeles to smite his laser-equipped long-lost brother (Wings Hauser).
BEASTMASTER III: The Beastmaster (Marc Singer) must stop an evil lord from claiming a magic gem that will bring a deadly god to life.
Lane Meyer (John Cusack) is a teen with a peculiar family and a bizarre fixation with his girlfriend, Beth (Amanda Wyss). When Beth dumps Lane, he decides to kill himself, making bumbling attempts at suicide. Outside of his morbid endeavors, Lane spends time with his oddball buddy, Charles (Curtis Armstrong), and befriends Monique (Diane Franklin), a visiting French student. Eventually, Lane resolves to race Beth’s obnoxious new beau on the ski slopes, with unexpected results.
In 1970, young first-time director Dario Argento (Deep Red, Suspiria) made his indelible mark on Italian cinema with The Bird with the Crystal Plumage – a film which redefined the ‘giallo’ genre of murder-mystery thrillers and catapulted him to international stardom.
Debbie, Curtis and Steven may seem cute as buttons. But their angelic facade conceals the wicked, murderous streak given to them having all been born under the same solar eclipse. With the grown-ups around them blissfully unaware of their little darlings’ homicidal tendencies, the evil brats begin to bump off the adults one-by-one. By gun. By arrow. By cake. Bye-bye!
In the San Fernando Valley in 1977, teenage busboy Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg) gets discovered by porn director Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds), who transforms him into adult-film sensation Dirk Diggler. Brought into a supportive circle of friends, including fellow actors Amber Waves (Julianne Moore), Rollergirl (Heather Graham) and Reed Rothchild (John C. Reilly), Dirk fulfills all his ambitions, but a toxic combination of drugs and egotism threatens to take him back down.
A former boxer loses his job as an auto mechanic, and his troubled marriage is about to expire. At this crossroads in his life, he feels that he has no better option than to work as a drug courier. He soon finds himself in a gunfight between police officers and his own ruthless allies. When the smoke clears, Bradley is badly hurt and thrown in prison, where his enemies force him to commit acts of violence that turn the place into a savage battleground.
In the dystopic masterpiece Brazil, Jonathan Pryce plays a daydreaming everyman who finds himself caught in the soul-crushing gears of a nightmarish bureaucracy. This cautionary tale by Terry Gilliam, one of the great films of the 1980s, now ranks alongside antitotalitarian works by the likes of George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr. And in terms of set design, cinematography, music, and effects, Brazil, a nonstop dazzler, stands alone.
Legendary Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis star as elderly Elvis and geriatric JFK, who end up in the same old age home, but the two must join forces to battle an ancient Egyptian Mummy and save the souls of their fellow residents. Don Coscarelli (2002)
The world faces a horrific onslaught of tornadoes, each unleashing hordes of enraged and deadly cats upon humanity! As chaos reigns, a disparate group of individuals have one mission: to stop this feline fury. But against such odds, and with only one life to spare per person, their battle becomes a cat-astrophic struggle for survival. And when the fur flies it will be a meow-ssacre!
Paul Reis (Beau Bridges, The Landlord) returns to his alma mater, St. Charles, an exclusive Catholic boarding school for male adolescents, as the new physical education teacher. When he arrives, he finds two of his new colleagues, English teacher Joseph Dobbs (Robert Preston, Victor/Victoria) and Latin teacher Jerome Malley (James Mason, Lolita), engaged in a bitter rivalry. As tensions rise, and anonymous threatening phone calls disrupt the usually tranquil environs of St. Charles, Reis finds himself embroiled in an unpredictable cycle of violence which begins to reflect in the increasingly aggressive behavior of the students.
Academy Award winners Michael Keaton and Morgan Freeman star in this gritty and critically-acclaimed drama, directed by Glen Gordon Caron (Moonlighting) . Keaton portrays Daryl Pointer, a hustling Philadelphia real estate agent with a serious cocaine addiction and a life that is quickly unraveling. He has embezzled and lost $100,000 from his employer. And then he wakes up with a girl dead of a drug overdose in his bed. Daryl checks himself into a substance abuse program, intending only to hide for a while. Plans change when he meets Craig (Freeman), a counselor who has already heard every excuse Daryl can offer, and develops a relationship with a recovering alcoholic and battered wife named Charlie (Kathy Baker, in an unforgettable performance). The story unfolds as Darryl’s life begins to change…hopefully for the better. Keaton’s portrayal of Daryl Pointer earned him a Best Actor award from the National Society of Film Critics, and the film itself won critical praise. More than 35 years after its premiere, CLEAN AND SOBER is a film ripe for rediscovery.
Fascinating and imaginative, this riveting thriller from director Neil Jordan (Interview With The Vampire) brings the timeless tale of “Little Red Riding Hood” and werewolf fables together in a haunting, compelling and eerie way.
A wise grandmother (Angela Lansbury) tells her granddaughter Rosaleen (Sarah Patterson) a disturbing tale of innocent maidens falling in love with handsome strangers … and of their sudden mysterious disappearances when the moon is full and accompanied by the strange sound of a beast in the woods. Nominated for four BAFTA awards including Best Costume Design, Best Make Up Artist, Best Production Design/Art Direction and Best Special Visual Effects, The Company Of Wolves is a tale that will chill you like no other …
25th anniversary box set of the hugely popular anime series about 5 intergalactic loners who team up to track down fugitives and turn them in for cold hard cash in 2071.
Five intergalactic loners team up to track down fugitives and turn them in for cold hard cash. From a drug bust on asteroid Tijuana to a stained-glass serenade with the Syndicate, cruise around the galaxy with the coolest gang of bounty hunters in 2071.
Tourists on a boat trip through southern swamps are terrorised by a monstrous crocodile with maternal rage. Caitlin Martin, Mark McLachlan, Chris Solari, Tobe Hooper, 2000.
A group of friends including Brady Turner, Claire and Duncan McKay go out on a boat trip on a lake in Southern California, but their joyful weekend turns into horror, when a giant killer crocodile searching for its stolen eggs, picks off anyone who gets in its way. Can they all escape in one piece or will they slowly and painfully fall to the mammoth reptile.
Criminals and hostages clash in a swamp, where a giant crocodile hunts them down with brutal precision. Heidi Lenhart, Chuck Walczak, Jon Sklaroff, Gary Jones, 2002.
After a bank robbery, four criminals escape to Mexico, but a storm causes an accident which takes down the plane where several die in the crash. The criminals take it into their own hands to continue when one survivor is attacked and eaten by a crocodile. The criminals kill it, but from then on the mother Crocodile is on a killing spree with a goal to kill each survivor. But that is not the only worry, because they’re trapped within it’s world, and if it doesn’t kill them, the criminals will.
Hammer’s lurid remake of Universal’s classic monster movie Frankenstein. Peter Cushing, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart, Christopher Lee, Terence Fisher, 1957.
Baron Victor Frankenstein has discovered the secret to generating new life and unleashed a murderous ripple effect, born from his cursed creation: a monster with a horrid face and a tendency to kill.
One of the most idiosyncratic films from Hammer & director Joseph Losey. An American tourist, a youth gang leader, and his troubled sister find themselves trapped in a top secret government facility experimenting on children. Macdonald Carey, Oliver Reed.
One of the most idiosyncratic films from Hammer & director Joseph Losey. An American tourist, a youth gang leader, and his troubled sister find themselves trapped in a top secret government facility experimenting on children. Macdonald Carey, Oliver Reed.
In the year 2000, America is a totalitarian regime on the brink of collapse. The most popular sport in this dystopia is the Transcontinental Road Race, where teams earn points for logging the fastest time and for mowing over the most innocent pedestrians in the process. This year’s competitors include Frankenstein (David Carradine), who is rumored to be more machine than man, and the tough-as-nails “Machine Gun” Joe Viterbo (Sylvester Stallone). Some have a plan to stop the race.
Double feature of ow budget genre films from British based Canadian director Lindsay Shonteff: Devil Doll (1964) / Curse of the Voodoo (1965)
Newly restored AIP Corman cult classic loosely adapting the works for H.P. Lovecraft. Dean Stockwell, Sandra Dee, Daniel Haller, 1970.
Riding high on their successful adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe, Roger Corman and American International Pictures took on that other titan of literary terror, H.P Lovecraft, in The Dunwich Horror!
Compilation revisiting two decades of the “Evil Bong” series, offering a hookah horror cinema experience. Sonny Carl Davis, Robin Sydney, John Patrick Jordan. Charles Band.
Flash back on two decades of debaucherous, delirious EVIL BONG escapades with this, the ULTIMATE hookah horror cinema experience! Rolling up the hazy HIGHlights from all 9 maniacal adventures of Ebee and her pals (with a special guest appearance from THE GINGERDEAD MAN!) into one freaky film fattie, EVIL BONG-A-THON is exactly what you think it is and so much more!
A boy encounters friendly monsters in a nostalgic Gothic fairytale from Czechoslovakia about broken hearts and monsters longing for acceptance. Juraj Jakubisko. 1987.
A bittersweet, slapstick cross between MONSTER SQUAD, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN and the Island of Misfit Toys, FRECKLED MAX is a nostalgic Gothic fairytale from acclaimed Slovak director Juraj Jakubisko about a young orphan Max who runs away and hides out in the ruins of nearby Frankenstein’s castle. There he meets a rogues’ gallery of monsters: Frankenstein, Dracula and more, all longing to be loved.
An astounding array of talent came together for the big-screen adaptation of John Fowles’s novel The French Lieutenant’s Woman, a postmodern masterpiece that had been considered unfilmable. With an ingenious script by the Nobel Prize–winning playwright Harold Pinter (Betrayal), British New Wave trailblazer Karel Reisz (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning) transforms Fowles’s tale of scandalous romance into an arresting, hugely entertaining movie about cinema. In Pinter’s reimagining, Jeremy Irons (Dead Ringers) and Meryl Streep (Sophie’s Choice) star in parallel narratives, as a Victorian-era gentleman and the social outcast he risks everything to love, and as the contemporary actors cast in those roles and immersed in their own forbidden affair. The French Lieutenant’s Woman, shot by the consummate cinematographer Freddie Francis (Glory) and scored by the venerated composer and conductor Carl Davis, is a beguiling, intellectually nimble feat of filmmaking, starring a pair of legendary actors in early leading roles.
A Cajun beauty (Claudia Jennings) lures male intruders into a swamp where women have a field day with them.
Beer-drinking intruders crash a Cajun wedding for revenge on a bayou bride (Jan MacKenzie) and groom (Tray Loren).
A raucous rock biopic of Jerry Lee Lewis, fuelled by wild piano solos, scandalous love affairs, and enough sweaty, unhinged energy to ignite a honky-tonk. Dennis Quaid, Winona Ryder, Alec Baldwin, Jim McBride, 1989
Includes Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy: TOTALLY FUCKED UP / DOOM GENERATION / NOWHERE
Take the conventions of the American teen movie, transpose them to Los Angeles’s freaky fringes, anchor them in an unapologetic vision of sexual fluidity, and top it all off with heavy doses of Gen X disillusionment, gonzo violence, and hallucinogenic surrealism, and you’ll end up with something like these audacious transgressions from New Queer Cinema renegade Gregg Araki. Gleefully mixing slacker irony with raw sincerity, Godardian cool with punk scuzz, the savagely subversive, hormone-fueled films that make up the Teen Apocalypse Trilogy pushed 1990s indie cinema into bold new aesthetic realms, while giving blistering expression to adolescent rage and libidinal desire.
Filmmakers Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez pay tribute to exploitation films of the 1970s with two features in one. Tarantino directs Death Proof, a slasher film, and Rodriguez directs Planet Terror, a zombie movie. Fictitious ads and movie trailers run during each feature’s intermission.
Todd Solondz’s controversial “Happiness” unveils the dark underbelly of suburban life, following a cast of damaged souls—from pedophiles to phone-sex addicts—as they desperately seek love amidst their existential despair. Philip Seymour Hoffman, 1998.
In an America ravaged by atomic warfare, nomads spend their days scavenging for scrap in a blasted landscape. That’s how ex-soldier Moses Baxter (Dylan McDermott) comes into possession of some spare android parts. He buys them as a present for his artist girlfriend, Jill (Stacey Travis), who plans to put them in a sculpture. What they don’t know is that the pieces come from a new kind of android that is capable of reassembling itself — and is programmed to kill.
In Medieval France, a warlock (Paul) has his head lopped off. His wife is also tortured and executed. But…voila! Paul’s spirit returns to modern times and takes possession of his descendant, who just happens to look exactly like hime. Horrific atrocities soon follow. This one of Paul’s cheeziest films, but still lots of fun. Rated R for violence and nudity. Beautiful color, anamorphic widescreen, from 35mm.
Indescribable psychedelic Japanse ghost tale that’s equal parts absurd and nightmarish, Scooby Doo and Mario Bava. Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977.
Japanese anime. When a young woman lacking self confidence is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent young wizard and his companions in his walking castle. Hayao Miyazaki (2004)
From the director / star of the Lake Michigan Monster, a live action Looney Tunes meets Guy Maddin story of a drunken applejack salesman who must go from zero to hero and become North America’s greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.
A brooding assassin faces shifting loyalties and deadly targets in a tech-drenched near-future city. Lee Je-hoon, Koo Kyo-hwan, Esom, Han Jun-hee. 2024.
When ruthless drug kingpin Wei Yun-zhou tightens his grip on the city, fear and chaos spread. Law enforcement has failed to bring him down until Huang Ming-jin steps in. Determined and relentless, he takes on the criminal empire, facing brutal enforcers and deadly traps at every turn. As the battle intensifies, fists and bullets fly in a relentless fight for justice.
Legendary animator Bill Plympton’s delirious and demented feature follows newlyweds Grant (voiced by Tom Larson) and Keri (voiced by Charis Michelsen) through a nonstop stream of Plympton’s classic surreal nonsequiturs and mindbending visual puns involving Chia pets, fingernail dirt, assaults by bugs at the dinner table, riding mower antics and spontaneous eruptions of wonderfully deranged music.
One of the greatest achievements by Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai), Ikiru presents the director at his most compassionate-affirming life through an exploration of death. Takashi Shimura (Rashomon) beautifully portrays Kanji Watanabe, an aging bureaucrat with stomach cancer who is impelled to find meaning in his final days. Presented in a radically conceived two-part structure and shot with a perceptive, humanistic clarity of vision, Ikiru is a multifaceted look at what it means to be alive.
Nawal (Lubna Azabal), a dying Middle Eastern woman living in Montreal, leaves separate letters to her twin children to be read once she passes away. Jeanne (Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin) is to deliver hers to the father the twins never knew, and Simon (Maxim Gaudette) is to give his to the brother they never knew they had. The siblings travel to the Middle East separately, where they each experience acts of brutality, uncover a startling family history, and have revelations about themselves.
Considered by many to be Jean Rollin’s masterpiece! A couple exploring a graveyard discover that they are unable to leave. Nathalie Perrey, Mireille Dargent, 1973.
Having built his reputation with a quartet of eccentric erotic vampire tales, Jean Rollin surprised audiences with The Iron Rose (Le Rose de fer), an atmospheric detour into the realms of the fantastique.
When a couple – played by Françoise Pascal (Burke and Hare) and Hugues Quester (Je t’aime moi non plus) – stumble across an old cemetery, they begin to explore its gravestones and crypts. But, as night falls, they find that they are unable to leave…
The cyberpunk thriller gets even more noir in black and white, revealing some of the film’s more objective narrative and dystopian setting envisioned by story-creator William Gibson. Keanu Reeves, 1995.
Keanu Reeves is a space-age courier who’s plugged in, turned on and buffed up to deliver the most important data of the 21st century, wet-wired directly into his brain! A rapid-fire roller coaster ofaction and high-impact imagery! Also starring Dolph Lundgren, Takeshi, Ice-T, Dina Meyer and Henry Rollins.
Collection of French adult films from one of the masters of the genre: BLACK LOVE (1973) / LA VEUVE (1974) / LES DEUX GOUINES (1975) / LA PLANQUE 2 (1976)
A devastating love story of self-destruction, where an alcoholic writer and a kind-hearted sex worker find solace in each other’s ruins. Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands, Mike Figgis, 1995
A rich tycoon bets he can survive on the streets, spiralling into slapstick misfortune, grim reality, and Mel Brooks’ signature satire on wealth and class. Mel Brooks, Lesley Ann Warren, Jeffrey Tambor, Mel Brooks, 1991
Directed by cult film icon Kenneth J. Hall at the height of the exercise tape craze, Linnea Quigley’s Horror Workout presents the Queen of Scream in a fun, frightening adventure that will keep you in stitches as you shed some inches. 1990.
A twist of fate brings two young travelers, George (Ray Lovelock, The Cassandra Crossing) and Edna (Christine Galbo, The House That Screamed), to a small town where an experimental agricultural machine may be bringing the dead back to life! As zombies infest the area and attack the living, George and Edna have to fight for their lives as they try and stop the impending zombie apocalypse!
Based on the best-selling manga series, the six intensely kinetic Lone Wolf and Cub films elevated chambara to bloody, new heights. Tomisaburo Wakayama.
FBI Agent Lee Harker is assigned to an unsolved serial killer case that takes an unexpected turn, revealing evidence of the occult. Harker discovers a personal connection to the killer and must stop him before he strikes again.
Classic screwball comedy about a stranded woman poses as a baroness, setting off mistaken identities and romance in a Parisian whirlwind. Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Mitchell Leisen, 1939.
In this 80s horror, a quadriplegic man’s trained monkey helper develops homicidal tendencies. Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil, George A. Romero. 1988.
Dancers at a New York academy are hunted by a killer who strikes with precision and a deadly rhythm. Olga Karlatos, Ray Lovelock, Claudio Cassinelli, Lucio Fulci, 1984.
In this acclaimed Robert Altman drama, the lives of numerous people in the Tennessee capital intersect in unpredictable ways. Delbert Reese (Ned Beatty) is a lawyer and political organizer who is having difficulties in his marriage to Linnea (Lily Tomlin), a gospel vocalist. Other performers heavily featured in this renowned ensemble production include country singers Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley) and Connie White (Karen Black), who are rivals in the city’s thriving music scene.
Three erotic tales in one sizzling pack! REAL NAUGHTY HOUSEWIVES, REAL NAUGHTY VICE GIRLS and REAL NAUGHTY, REAL WILD.
Stylish supernatural slasher about an agoraphobic writer who rents a dilapidated mansion only to start experience bizarre happenings. Presented in its longer Phobia cut. Gloria Grahame, Armand Weston, 1983
A deceptively simple tale of a group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse who find themselves fending off a horde of flesh-eating ghouls, Romero’s claustrophobic vision of a late-1960s America literally tearing itself apart rewrote the rules of the horror genre, combined gruesome gore with acute social commentary, and quietly broke ground by casting a black actor (Duane Jones) in its lead role.
A young man set up as the fall guy in a string of brutal slasher murders decides he’ll hide by sneaking into the forbidden subterranean realm of Midian where shape-shifting beings—The Nightbreed—dwell.
Captain J.T. Robbins is sentenced to prison for the assassination of his general officer, a prison where you only leave in a body bag. “Absolom,” is where the worst prisoners are free to create an isolated barbaric society, and where the strongest men rule…a living Hell.
Robin Williams delivers his “finest hour” (USA Today) in “one of the eeriest, most absorbing, effective thrillers in years” (NBC-TV). Sy “the photo guy” Parrish (Williams) has lovingly, painstakingly developed photographs for the Yorkin family since their son was a baby. But as Yorkins’ lives become fuller, Sy’s only seems lonelier, until he eventually convinces himself he’s part of their family. When “Uncle Sy’s” picture-perfect fantasy collides with an ugly dose of reality, what happens next “has the spine-tingling elements of the best psychological crime thrillers!” (The New York Observer)
Dr. Atsuko Chiba works as a scientist by day and, under the code name “Paprika,” is a dream detective at night. Atsuko and her colleagues are working on a device called the DC Mini, which is intended to help psychiatric patients, but in the wrong hands it could destroy people’s minds. When a prototype is stolen, Atsuko/Paprika springs into action to recover it before damage is done.
Feature length animated film from Satoshi Kon about A pop singer gives up her career to become an actress, but she slowly goes insane when she starts being stalked by an obsessed fan and what seems to be a ghost of her past. 1997.
The nightmarish journey of a discarded cybernetic sex android that is expelled from a brothel and left to fend for himself. Shozin Fukui, 1991.
Kubrick’s haunting antiwar film features Kirk Douglas as a WWI French colonel who refuses carry out an impossible and is tried for treason. 1957.
A ruthless crook, Walker (Lee Marvin), is betrayed by his partner, Mal Reese (John Vernon), who leaves him for dead on Alcatraz Island. Having survived, Walker returns years later to get revenge. He gets his first lead when a mysterious man (Keenan Wynn) tells him that Reese is now part of a vast criminal organization and dating Walker’s wife’s sister, Chris (Angie Dickinson). But after contacting Chris, Walker discovers that in truth she loathes Reese and is willing to help him get justice.
A rocker’s struggle to make it big, directed by a music supervisor and featuring an all-star female rock band, becomes a cult classic. Gina Gershon, Drea De Matteo, Lori Petty, Alex Steyermark, 2003
A rookie member of an elite team of commandos, Rama (Iko Uwais) is instructed to hang back while his comrades-in-arms go ahead with their mission to take down a brutal crime lord called Tama (Ray Sahetapy). However, the team’s cover is blown, and Tama offers sanctuary to every criminal in his high-rise apartment block in exchange for the cops’ heads. Now Rama must take command and lead his remaining team on an ultraviolent charge through the building to complete — and survive — the mission.
Vowing to go straight, a convenience store banditt (Nicolas Cage) proposes marriage to the police departments photographer (Holly Hunter). All is wedded bliss until they discover she’s unable to get pregnant and are turned down by every adoption agency in town. It does not take long before they realize the only solution is to kidnap one of the town’s celebrated quintuplets and hit the road!
A particularly nasty demon, is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer, and an American historian on a working vacation with his family must stop the vicious monster. George Pavlou (1986)
The Collection returns to the shop !
A gloriously over-the-top disco-fuelled time capsule where a wealthy teen and a streetwise skater team up to win a roller disco contest while saving their beloved rink from developers. Linda Blair, Jim Bray, Beverly Garland, Mark L. Lester, 1979
A recluse and an overbearing salesman team up to find the perfect burial spot for the recluse’s beloved cat, and wind up stranded in Death Valley.
In the year 2019, America is a totalitarian state where the favorite television program is “The Running Man” — a game show in which prisoners must run to freedom to avoid a brutal death. Having been made a scapegoat by the government, an imprisoned Ben Richards (Arnold Schwarzenegger) has the opportunity to make it back to the outside again by being a contestant on the deadly show, although the twisted host, Damon Killian (Richard Dawson), has no intention of letting him escape.
A raw, grimy undercover thriller where 2 undercover cops spiral into drug addiction while infiltrating a dangerous narcotics ring. Jason Patric, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sam Elliott, Lili Fini Zanuck, 1991
After a year of combating a pandemic with relatively benign symptoms, a frustrated nation finally lets its guard down. This is when the virus spontaneously mutates, giving rise to a mind-altering plague. The streets erupt into violence and depravity, as those infected are driven to enact the most cruel and ghastly things they can think of. Murder, torture, rape and mutilation are only the beginning. A young couple is pushed to the limits of sanity as they try to reunite amid the chaos. The age of civility and order is no more. There is only “The Sadness”.
The comic genius of silent star Harold Lloyd is eternal. Chaplin was the sweet innocent, Keaton the stoic outsider, but Lloyd—the modern guy striving for success—is us. And with its torrent of perfectly executed gags and astonishing stunts, Safety Last! is the perfect introduction to him. Lloyd plays a small-town bumpkin trying to make it in the big city, who finds employment as a lowly department-store clerk. He comes up with a wild publicity stunt to draw attention to the store, resulting in an incredible feat of derring-do on his part that gets him started on the climb to success. Laugh-out-loud funny and jaw-dropping in equal measure, Safety Last! is a movie experience par excellence, anchored by a genuine legend.
The 2004 miniseries, Salem’s Lot, follows writer Ben Mears (played by Rob Lowe) as he returns to his childhood home, Jerusalem’s Lot (or Salem’s Lot), Maine, to write a book. He discovers the town is being terrorized by vampires, led by Richard Straker and Kurt Barlow. The story explores the descent of the town into darkness as the vampires spread their influence.
Tony Manero (John Travolta) doesn’t have much going for him during the weekdays. He still lives at home and works as a paint store clerk in his Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood. But he lives for the weekends, when he and his friends go to the local disco and dance the night away. When a big dance competition is announced, he wrangles the beautiful and talented Stephanie (Karen Lynn Gorney) to be his partner. As the two train for the big night, they start to fall for each other as well.
One of the most thrilling movie epics of all time, Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors to protect them from invading bandits. This three-hour ride from Akira Kurosawa—featuring legendary actors Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura—seamlessly weaves philosophy and entertainment, delicate human emotions and relentless action, into a rich, evocative, and unforgettable tale of courage and hope.
Angela, supposedly reformed and living under an assumed surname, is working at a summer camp. However, when the campers start misbehaving, she soon reverts to her old ways. Pamela Springsteen, Renée Estevez, Tony Higgins, 1988.
SMILE: After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can’t explain. As an overwhelming terror begins taking over her life, Rose must confront her troubling past in order to survive and escape her horrifying new reality.
SMILE 2: About to embark on a new world tour, global pop sensation Skye Riley begins to experience increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events. Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and pressures of fame, she must face her dark past to regain control of her life before it spirals out of control.
Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness. In Solaris, the legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky gives us a brilliantly original science-fiction epic that challenges our conceptions about love, truth, and humanity itself.
Hayao Miyazaki’s critically-acclaimed wondrous & dazzling fantasy animated masterpiece.
Over-the-top creature-runs-amuck movie – this time it is WORMS! AUGH! Don Scardino, Patricia Pearcy, Jeff Lieberman, 1976
Answering a NASA message intended for aliens, a space being tries to contact mankind, but an American missile grounds his ship. Scrambling, the so-called Starman (Jeff Bridges) inhabits the body of a late Wisconsinite and kidnaps the dead man’s widow, Jenny Hayden (Karen Allen). Determined to reunite with a vessel from his home planet at a predetermined site, Starman and Jenny travel to Arizona. Pursued by military officials trying to kill him, Starman forges a lasting bond with Jenny.
Fading actress Elisabeth Sparkle becomes distressed when her chauvinistic boss fires her from her aerobics show. She soon injects herself with a mysterious serum that promises a younger, better version of herself, but things go horribly wrong.
The American dream has rarely seemed so far away as in Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou’s raw, vérité Take Out, an immersion in the life of an undocumented Chinese immigrant struggling to get by on the margins of post-9/11 New York City. Facing violent retaliation from a loan shark, restaurant deliveryman Ming Ding has until nightfall to pay back the money he owes, and he encounters both crushing setbacks and moments of unexpected humanity as he races against time to earn enough in tips over the course of a frantic day. From this simple setup, Baker and Tsou fashion a kind of neorealist survival thriller of the everyday, shedding compassionate light on the too often overlooked lives and labour that keep New York running.
Giallo horror classic where An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book. Dario Argento (1982)
40 years ago, five youths on a weekend getaway in the Texas countryside fell prey to a butcher in a mask made of human skin and his cannibalistic family, and horror cinema would never be the same. Violent, confrontational, and shockingly realistic, director Tobe Hooper’s THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE terrified audiences in a way never thought possible when it was unleashed on a politically and socially tumultuous America in 1974. Facing a storm of controversy, censorship, and outcry throughout its troubled release, this masterpiece of horror has stood the test of time to become a landmark motion picture and cultural milestone.
A vivid Macbeth adaptation, Throne of Blood, directed by Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai), sets Shakespeare’s tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly, fog-enshrouded landscape in feudal Japan. As a tough warrior who rises savagely to power, Toshiro Mifune (Yojimbo) gives a remarkable, animalistic performance, as does Isuzu Yamada (Black River) as his ruthless wife. Throne of Blood fuses Western tragedy with formal elements taken from Noh theatre to create an unforgettable cinematic experience.
An assortment of unruly and misfit teens have all been forced to attend camp at a wildlife preserve which happens to be next to a an illicit marijuana growing op that uses a pesticide that mutates ticks to gigantic size. Rosalind Allen, Seth Green, 1993.
Blood, guts and guns are the new normal in the new police state! In the near future, the Tokyo Police Corporation wages a blood-splattered war with the Engineers, a genetically modified group of super-criminals. These mutant mobsters can bio-fuse and surgically implant weapons into their anatomy, turning self-mutilation and body modification into a lethal form of performance art. Meet Ruka, the daughter of a brutally slain police officer, the Corporation s deadliest Engineer Hunter. With cold-blooded efficiency, she slices and dices her way through the crime world and discovers a lair that operates as the underworld s freakish fetish club! But no amount of fear can deter Ruka from fulfilling her sworn duty and avenging her father’s death.
A group of young friends stranded at a secluded roadside museum are stalked by a masked assailant who uses his telekinetic powers to control the attraction’s mannequins. Score by Pino Donaggio. Chuck Connors, Tanya Roberts, Linnea Quigley, 1979.
All the body-piercing, kinky sex, and car crashes that Shakespeare wanted but never had! Join Tromeo (Will Keenan), Juliet (Jane Jensen), and Lemmy of Motorhead as they travel through Manhattan’s underground in search of climactic love, violence, and the American Way. Tromeo and Juliet is thrust forward with hyper-kinetic performances and a cutting-edge soundtrack.
One of the most beloved and widely-quoted films of the decade directed by Tony Scott and written by Quentin Taratino – newly remastered. Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, Christopher Walken, 1993.
There’s no shortage of magnificent Douglas Fir trees in Twin Peaks. Immerse yourself in the entire universe of Twin Peaks with this definitive collection which includes Seasons 1 and 2 of The Original Series?, A Limited Event Series, Fire Walk with Me, and 4K Ultra Hi-Def versions of the Original Series Pilot and Part 8 of A Limited Event Series?, plus so much more! So grab a cup of coffee, a slice of cherry pie, and experience the legendary mystery…again and again!
The urban jungle of 1963 New York’s gangland subculture, this coming of age teenage movie is set around the Italian gang the Wanderers falling in love, surviving in school and defending their turf. Philip Kaufman (1979)
What We Do In The Shadows introduces us the age-old vampire flat mates being filmed by a New Zealand documentary crew. Stuck in their antiquated ways they struggle to adjust to 21st century customs, like paying rent, sharing household chores, and getting expressly invited into nightclubs.
In this sun-soaked comedy, a Malibu game show, Bikini Showdown, pits quirky contestants against one another for $10,000 and a shot at Hollywood fame. Sweet country girl Mary (Barbara Moore), fierce Kelly (Kathy Pasmore), and ambitious Natalie (Shauna O’Brien) dive into outrageous challenges. Packed with laughs, sand, and sizzle, it’s a wild ride you won’t forget!
Wizard of Oz gets a funky reimagining in this lavish adaptation of a landmark Broadway musical based on the book. Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Sidney Lumet, 1978.
L. Frank Baum’s timeless story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz gets a funky reimagining in this lavish adaptation of a landmark Broadway show based on the book. Diana Ross brings her showstopping star power to the role of Dorothy, here a Harlem schoolteacher who is magically transported to a surreal fantasyland that resembles New York City, complete with man-eating trash cans and a disco paradise. Propelled by the musical contributions of Quincy Jones and an all-star cast that includes Michael Jackson, Richard Pryor, and Lena Horne, this dazzling soul spectacular from legendary director Sidney Lumet reframes a beloved tale through the Black American experience, creating a powerful celebration of self-determination.
Breathtaking animated dystopian fairy tale that is equal measure uncompromising examination of fascism and shape-shifting, trippy nightmare. Cristobal Leon, Joaquin Cocina, 2020.
After escaping from a religious colony in Chile, Maria seeks shelter in a mansion where she’s taken in by two pigs, its only inhabitants. Like in a stop-motion dream, the universe of the house reacts to her feelings. The animals slowly morph into humans and the house into a dark, menacing world.
And there we go guys. Movies should be here on Thursday/ Friday. Cheers!
